CAMELS-GB: 671 catchments in Great Britain
Hydro-meteorological time series (rainfall, PET, temperature, radiation, humidity, flow) and a comprehensive set of catchment attributes (topography, climate, hydrology, land cover, soils, hydrogeology, human influences, discharge uncertainty) for 671 catchments across Great Britain. Daily series 1970-2015. Standardized for large-sample/ML hydrology.
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At a glance
- Region
- United Kingdom (Europe)
- Coverage
- 671 catchments (Great Britain)
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Research Institute
- Last updated
- 2020
What's inside
- streamflow
- meteorological forcing
- catchment attributes
- hydrologic signatures
- time series
Terms explained
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Design flows
Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.
Because it has: streamflow
- 02
Low flows
Set environmental flows and check what is left in the river in a dry year.
- 03
Design storms
Build rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curves for drainage design.
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Flow forecasting
Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.
- 02
Ungauged basins
Combine with catchment data to estimate flow where there is no gauge.
- 03
Downscaling
Turn coarse rainfall grids into field or ward scale estimates.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
GeoNetwork records API at data-search.nerc.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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